?ECARY. 
adopted those appellations wliich best pleased 
them, or endeavoured to form new ones more 
eharacteiistically descriptive. The most com- 
mon European name, Pecary, seems to be de- 
rived from Paquiras ; which is said, by Gumilla, 
to be it's Indian name, in the country of the 
Amazons. The French call it Pecari, or the 
Sanglier Pecari ; at the Bay of All Saints, ac- 
cording to Dampier, it is called Pelas ; at To- 
bago, according to Rochefort, Javari, or Pa- 
quire ; by the Savages of Brasil, according to 
Lery, Tajassoii : and, in several places of 
America, according to Joseph Acosta, Saino, 
or Zaiho; to Ovicdo, Chuchie; and, to 
Coreal, Coscui. 
BufFon observes, that this is the most nu- 
merous, as well as the most remarkable animal, 
in the New World. *• It has,'* says he, 
been called the Boar, or Hog, of America. 
It constitutes, however, a different species; 
for, from repeated trials, it has been found, 
that it does not Intermix either with our wnld 
or domestic kinds. It likewise differs from 
the Hog in several essential characters, both 
external and internal • it is not so corpulent, 
and it's legs are shorter-; the form of it's 
stomach, 
